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at October 29, 2010 07:52 by danwhite85
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<?php
function browser_info($agent=null) {
// Declare known browsers to look for
$known = array('msie', 'firefox', 'safari', 'webkit', 'opera', 'netscape',
'konqueror', 'gecko');
// Clean up agent and build regex that matches phrases for known browsers
// (e.g. "Firefox/2.0" or "MSIE 6.0" (This only matches the major and minor
// version numbers. E.g. "2.0.0.6" is parsed as simply "2.0"
$agent = strtolower($agent ? $agent : $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
$pattern = '#(?<browser>' . join('|', $known) .
')[/ ]+(?<version>[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?)#';
// Find all phrases (or return empty array if none found)
if (!preg_match_all($pattern, $agent, $matches)) return array();
// Since some UAs have more than one phrase (e.g Firefox has a Gecko phrase,
// Opera 7,8 have a MSIE phrase), use the last one found (the right-most one
// in the UA). That's usually the most correct.
$i = count($matches['browser'])-1;
return array($matches['browser'][$i] => $matches['version'][$i],
'browser' => $matches['browser'][$i],
'version' => $matches['version'][$i]);
}
//get browser info
$ua = browser_info();
//show what's returned
echo '<pre>';
echo print_r( $ua );
echo '</pre>';
/*
// Various browser tests you can do with the returned array ...
if ($ua['firefox']) ... // true
if ($ua['firefox'] > 3) ... // true
if ($ua['firefox'] > 4) ... // false
if ($ua['browser'] == 'firefox') ... // true
if ($ua['version'] > 3.5) ... // true
if ($ua['msie']) ... // false ('msie' key not defined)
if ($ua['opera'] > 3) ... // false ('opera' key not defined)
if ($ua['safari'] < 3) ... // false also ('safari' key not defined)
*/
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PHP browser detection light
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php, browser
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PHP